The family of Legend Tom Hafey sells the Sorrento Holiday House that their summer house has been since the 1960s.
The family of legend Tom Hafey sells the Hall of Famer’s Beach House in Sorrento that other Tigers -greats from Kevin Sheedy to Kevin Bartlett and Francis Bourke organized.
And they have revealed how the famous sober footballing large changed into the ultimate entertainer when he was at the weekend, who often share it with 20 guests spread over the five bedrooms and sleep in tents in the back garden.
Hafey played 67 VFL matches with Richmond before he started with one of the most decorated coaching career in the history of the game and collected the Jock McHale medal as coach of a Premiership -Winning side in 1967, 1969, 1973 and 1974.
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He also took the reins in Geelong, Collingwood and the Sydney Swans, with the last two sides that both made several major last performances under his leadership.
Hafey was also famous a fitness icon that is known to start every day with an 8 km run, 250 push -ups, 700 crunches and sit -ups, plus a dive -an achievement he saw was often seen at the Tideways Beach of Sorrento and the St Kilda Foreshore.
Nowadays, the grandchildren of Hafey still use his original set of free weights, held under the deck at his former weekly in 20 Lister Ave.
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The old weights of Hafey are still being used by his family today.
Football legend Tommy Hafey (Tom Hafey) splashed cold harbor Phillip Bay Water in himself before he was on his way to his early morning swimming in 2003.
The holiday home has been expanded and added over the years and regularly focuses on a large crowd.
His daughter Rhonda Hafey noticed that her father always said, while they were rustier than when he bought them, they still weighed just as much.
The now five bedroom room Sorrento-house has remained the location of push-up, chin up and weightlifting competitions between last generations of Hafeys, who regularly gather at home with no less than 20 at the same time as Christmas.
But it started like a house with two bedrooms, partly built by Hafey’s brother Peter, a runner for Richmond, while his football champion brother and sister “pumped weights from the back”.
Renovations and extensions added to the bedrooms over the years, with a grandmother around the back that created a fifth as the most recent addition – although the family has often had a small tent city in the back garden while Hafey has maintained an open door policy for guests.
The family spent most of their time in the house outside and enjoyed the barbecue.
Hafey as Richmond Football Club Coach in 1973.
The result can be a maximum of 20 people who remain with family and friends after barbecues, and occasionally a visit from Richmond legends such as Sheedy, Bartlett and Bourke, as well as people like Demons’ Great Steven Smith.
Mrs. Hafey said, however, that there were no sleep-ins, where her father came home from his morning fitness routine and was immediately looking for Vegemite Toast for everyone in the home and the radio on “Full-Bore”.
“Then we would go to the beach and he would make the cricket shine,” she said.
Once he stopped coaching, the Legend -legend began to spend more time in the Sorrento house that became the basis for Surflings for several generations of the Hafey family, and he often said: “There is nothing better than being on a wave with your grandsons”.
When he was back in Melbourne, he was happy to drop his grandchildren at school or even at the train station to go to university as they grew up.
Guests who stayed at the house regularly woke up with Vegemite Toast after Hafey returned from his morning fitness routine.
The backyard has regularly become a space for tents, while guest numbers are swollen by the number of beds.
Although the family might say goodbye to the Sorrento Holiday Home that has had a wooden “hafey” sign since the 1960s, they spread his ash on nearby Tideways Beach and they will make the laugh and the memories with them.
Mrs. Hafey and her husband recently bought a new house, not far away, where her father’s open door policy will continue and they still expect many guests.
Adam Kenyon from Marshall White deals with the sale of the house, mentioned with $ 2 million- $ 2.2 million expectations, and said he had already had many questions.
The family has taken a long way to guarantee sufficient accommodation for guests.
The most recent addition of the house is a grandma flat at the rear that has increased its accommodation.
The 1148SQ M block is considerably larger than the average for Sorrento, he noticed.
Mr Kenyon said that much of the interest came from buyers who were looking for their own weekend away – although a few considered it a potential house.
Renovations or replacement are both probably for the building that is within walking distance of the beach and the yacht club, although he noticed that Hafey would be reminded for a long time to enter the city.
Another bedroom offers more private accommodation.
Tommy Hafey still does his daily fitness routine on St Kilda Beach when he turned 80.
“Tommy was very iconic in this neck of the forest, everyone saw him run to the beach and doing his exercises – everyone knows he was a Sorrento man,” said Mr. Kenyon.
“And for a guy who didn’t drink, he was always entertaining. The barbecue was on every night with an open invitation.”
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